Steve Bliss: Finding Perfect Subjects
About the kids when young.
In this Anatomy of a Photo, Steve recounts how, when they were young, his two boys became his photographic subjects and how he has recently circled back to them.
Steven Jay Bliss is an artist and photographic educator residing in Savannah, Georgia. His work is project-based, broad in scope and covers/includes a variety of media and subject matter. He credits Professor Richard Merritt for both helping him to identify his interest in photography and mentoring him as a student at the University of New Hampshire’s fine arts program. Receiving his M.F.A. from Ohio University in 1982, Steve’s early career included teaching positions at the Kansas City Art Institute, Southern Connecticut State, Hartwick College, and S.U.N.Y., Purchase, until he landed at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in 1992. Steve has been making pictures for about 50 years.
Steve has received a number of grants and awards: from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Georgia Council for the Arts, Polaroid Corporation, and the Southern Arts Federation. His photographs, digital images, and various works on paper are in the collections of museums and private collectors both nationally and internationally. Steve’s imagery has been published in several books including Workshop Stories: Changed Through Photography, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes and Introduction to Digital Photography. Recent online/hard copy magazine publication includes A-B (Aint Bad), C 41, and It’s Nice That.
